Project information

Baroque and Roll at Kings Weston House

Mind Your Music (www.mindyourmusic.org) and Stepping Out Theatre are running a series of workshops, rehearsals and live gigs leading up to a one day music festival in a spectacular Bristol location showcasing a wide range of music including classical, jazz, ska, soul, indie, roots and americana.

Charity information: Stepping Out Theatre

Need

Over the last 14 years, Mind Your Music and Stepping Out Theatre have proved the enormous therapeutic benefits of creative activities to those who are recovering from mental health problems. Local mental health service users interested in music in Bristol need an exciting, rewarding new project as a focus for their musical talents and energies. This is the project that they have asked us to focus on.

Solution

Over the first 7 months of 2018, Baroque and Roll at Kings Weston House will provide an exciting focus for musical and theatrical activities for mental health service users in Bristol. With a series of activities in and around the iconic building and its beautiful natural setting, the project will inspire local mental health service users with a wide range of exciting musical activities.

Impact

We will evidence significant changes in the lives of the service users Mind Your Music and Stepping Out Theatre work with across a range of indicators measured using our standard evaluation questionnaires filled in by participants before and after taking part in activities for this project.

Risk

The main risk is of the project not being funded. We are pursuing as many possible avenues of funding as possible for this project in order to minimise this risk.

Reporting

All donors will receive regular email and text updates on the progress of project, and the project will be heavily publicised on social media.

Beneficiaries

Why Us?

Mind Your Music are the country's leading mental health music group. Stepping Out Theatre are the country's leading mental health theatre company. The two groups recently collaborated on a highly successful theatre production at Kings Weston House, and have forged a good relationship with the owner and the venue.